screen goes black..

[Jeremy Steele]

It does that because ydl cannot boot on external hard drives. As far as 
I know it has to be in an internal hd.

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 08:12 AM, rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:

> Hi, I've been trying to get either YDL 2 or YDL 3 to run on a Power 
> Center 150
> (lots of ram, YDL installed on an external scsi drive).
>
> The same problem happens either YDL 2 or 3...everything installs 
> perfectly, but
> when I boot into Linux, things go black after it is done with the text 
> part of
> boot-up.  If I use text login, it goes black after I log in (KDE 
> continues to
> load, you can tell because of the sound ditty that plays during the 
> desktop
> loading).  If I use graphical login, it goes black when it tries to 
> load the
> graphical login screen.
>
> Obviously it doesn't like something about the video on the machine, 
> which has
> nothing but an Apple "platinum" video card.
>
> Any suggestions?  I choose 800 x 600 and thousands of colors during
> installation, should I have chosen something else?  I have an 
> Applevision 1710
> monitor.
>
> Thanks,
>
> RJ Goos
>
>
>
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